Erin O’Keefe
As both an artist and an architect, I am interested in the terrain between two-dimensional representation and three-dimensional space. The tendency of photography to distort and flatten space makes it a fertile medium to explore these issues.
These images combine nature and architectural space in an evocative and open-ended way. I am interested in the chaotic mysterious space of nature, and in the primary impulse of architecture to act as a bulwark against that chaos. I see these two conditions in opposition; one determined for order and permanence, one for complexity and entropy.
This series of photographs grew out of the desire to make visible the archive of space that we all carry around in our heads. As an architect, I carry the images of so many spaces with me all the time – many of those spaces I have never actually been in. They exist as images only – photographs and plans that constitute a kind of dreamlike idealized space. Those spaces exist alongside the memories of the places where I grew up and went to school. They have no hierarchy – my childhood bedroom and the Sistine Chapel are coequal entities in this archive. I wanted to build a new architecture from these fragments.
Work by Erin O’Keefe. See more here.
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